Espera is a municipality and town in the province of Cádiz, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, southern Spain. It lies within the Andalusian countryside of the province, a largely rural area of whitewashed settlements and agricultural land.
According to the 2005 census, Espera had a population of 3,909 inhabitants. It is one of the smaller municipalities in the province of Cádiz, which is the southernmost province of mainland Spain and includes the city of Cádiz as its capital.
As with other towns in the region, Espera is part of Andalusia, an autonomous community that covers the southern portion of the Iberian Peninsula and is made up of eight provinces, of which Cádiz is one.